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November 2014

November 10, 2014

Ran a brief note last week on contradictory atheist rhetorical strategies

Since then, atheists have shown up in droves to help fill the comboxes up with...

November 07, 2014

Padding the Case for the Nu Atheism

Reader Delali Godwin Adadzie writes: Atheists in the popular Google+ group "THINKERS" say I am...

April 2014

April 07, 2014

Cosmos in the Lost on the “eclipse of science”…

during those terrible Middle Ages. It's amazing how much intellect worshippers fail to *use* the...

December 2013

December 07, 2013

Strange Notions is re-running a fine piece by atheist Tim O’Neill…

on the absolutely ignorant myth of the Dark Ages so beloved by atheists who worship,...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Postmodernity Often Mistakes Benefiting from Science for Knowing Something about It

Result: people who sign petitions to ban dihydrogen monoxide and expand abortion rights to the...

September 13, 2013

Mike Flynn Continues His Ongoing Campaign to Educate Us…

...about all this science stuff we thought we knew about, but really just parrot because...

August 2013

August 14, 2013

Atheists are Way Smarter Than the Common Herd

It's a scientificalistically proven fact, if you are the sort of atheist who worships rather...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Some atheist readers were offended…

...at my reader for noting that it was two Catholic women who came to the...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

Intellect Worship vs. Intellect Use

...is under discussion over at the Register too. When people talk about the Church's Centuries-Old...

April 15, 2013

A Reader Asks About Arguing with Atheism

...over at the Register. An atheist respondent replies that there are no arguments for atheism,...

March 2013

March 08, 2013

Rationalist Pseudoknowledge, Myths, and Legends

One of the favorite tropes among those who worship, rather than use, the intellect is...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

Darwinism, the Religion of the New Atheists, is All About Reproduction

One of the more ironic mysteries of the atheist subculture is how it tends to...

September 2012

September 21, 2012

South African Chris Shepherd…

argues about the American elections, talks about the badassest miracles, and persuades me that his...

July 2012

July 25, 2012

Marc Barnes…

...deals with yet another New Atheist whose worship of his own intellect is in vast...

July 24, 2012

Ed Feser Notes Something I’ve Noticed Too

Namely, that an awful lot of atheist rhetoric is just sort of Protestant rhetoric on...

July 06, 2012

Failure to grasp the concept

An agnostic writes over on Ed Feser's blog to persuade us all of the following:...

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